Category Archives: Chicago's Election Headquarters
Trump signs executive order to keep families together at border
[van id=”politics/2018/06/20/trump-signing-executive-order-family-separation-sot.cnn”] By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Bowing to pressure from anxious a...
Jun 20, 2018
Rachel Maddow breaks down in tears while discussing border crisis
By Brian Stelter MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ended the night in tears. So did many of her viewers. Maddow, one of the most popular hosts on cable news, choked up while sharing a news story about what&...
Jun 20, 2018
Proposal to rename Balbo Drive stalls at City Hall
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The proposal to replace the name of Balbo Dr. for the civil rights icon Ida B. Wells has stalled at City Hall. Ida B. Wells Dr was supposed to get a hearing here...
Jun 20, 2018
McCarthy compares Emanuel’s policies to separating families at Mexican border
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, challenger Garry McCarthy called reporters to the mayor’s office door at City Hall. McCarthy’s first day back to City Hall sin...
Jun 20, 2018
Rauner denounces policy of separating families
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner is joining the chorus of leaders denouncing the Trump administration for separating children from their illegal immigrant parents at the Mexican ...
Jun 19, 2018
Lawyer: Agent booted off Mueller team escorted from FBI HQ
WASHINGTON (AP) - An FBI agent removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team because of anti-Donald Trump text messages has been escorted out of the FBI building. That’s according to ...
Jun 19, 2018
Rauner and Emanuel laud each other at U of I announcement
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner, Mayor Emanuel and other dignitaries gathered in the South Loop to formally announce the new University of Illinois Digital Partners Institute fo...
Jun 19, 2018
Laura Bush Blasts Trump’s Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy As ‘Immoral’
Former First Lady Laura Bush says that the current policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border is breaking her heart. In an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post, Bush s...
Jun 18, 2018
Roger Stone: Meeting with Russian who wanted $2M for Clinton dirt was FBI set-up
[van id=”politics/2018/06/17/roger-stone-met-with-russian-in-2016-wapo-sot-sotu.cnn”] By Maegan Vazquez Conservative political provocateur Roger Stone in 2016 met with a Russian who offere...
Jun 17, 2018
Paul Manafort sent to jail, pending trial
[van id=”politics/2018/06/15/paul-manafort-jail-pending-trial-ath-prokupecz.cnn”] A judge sent former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to jail as he awaits trial on foreign lobbying a...
Jun 15, 2018
